Critical:
What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis,
by Tom Daschle, with Jeanne M. Lambrew & Scott S. Greenberger
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Health Care
Bill Clinton: Failure in 1993 echoed Truman's failure in 1945.
Gerald Ford: Urged national health insurance bill.
Jimmy Carter: Across-the-board cap on hospital charge annual increases.
Lyndon Johnson: Signed Medicare bill to avoid family financial disasters.
Tom Daschle: Federal Health Board to cut through Gordian knot.
Tom Daschle: Only industrialized nation without guaranteed health care.
Tom Daschle: We spend $6,100/yr on medical care; twice the world average.
Tom Daschle: Even the employed are not secure in their health insurance.
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The above quotations are from Critical:
What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis,
by Tom Daschle, with Jeanne M. Lambrew & Scott S. Greenberger.
Books by and about Cabinet Members:
- Between Worlds, by Gov. Bill Richardson, Secretary of Commerce-designee
- Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis, by Sen. Tom Daschle, Secretary of Health & Human Services-designee
- Dreams from My Father:, by Sen. Barack Obama, President-elect
- It Takes A Village, by Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State-designee
- Leading by Example, by Gov. Bill Richardson, Secretary of Commerce-designee
- Like No Other Time: The Two Years That Changed America, by Sen. Tom Daschle, Secretary of Health & Human Services-designee
- Living History, by Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State-designee
- Profiles In Courage For Our Time, by Caroline Kennedy, including chapter on Rep. Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor-designee
- Promises to Keep, by Sen. Joe Biden, Vice President-elect
- The Audacity of Hope, by Sen. Barack Obama, President-elect
- No Higher Honor, by Condoleezza Rice (2011)
- My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, by Condoleezza Rice (2012)
- The Plan: Big Ideas for Change in America, by Rahm Emanuel
- The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless, by Naftali Bendavid; profiling Rep. Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff
- For the Record, by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan
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